Medicare Hospital Prospective Payment System: How DRG ...

for inpatient hospital care so that efficient hospitals are rewarded for their efficiency and inefficient hospitals have an incentive to become more efficient. Congress gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) primary responsibility for setting and updating hospital payment rates under PPS.3 Later, Congress created the Prospective

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